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Do businesses really regard their CIO as the Cheap Infrastructure Officer? picture credit: project 404 Well that was the thrust of an extremely interesting observation made by Ilhan Aksoycan, who commented on one of my earlier articles about the future role of the CIO. I am sure that many will dispute the attribution of cheap infrastructure Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders. Picture credit: alicepopkorn A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create Four different views from Mike Tonkiss, Adam Burstow, Colin Beveridge and Dave Hansen No, I haven’t done a spectacular u-turn. In my earlier posting (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) I promised to write more about my vision for the future role of the CIO as Chief Integration Officer so here it is as a summary view… There are probably as many interpretations of the role of Chief Information Officer as there are holders of the post, whereas the role of a Chief Integration Officer can be universally defined. Furthermore, unlike the Chief Information Officer, the CIO as Chief Integration Officer will be a key function for the forseeable future, if not forever. My provocation earlier this week (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) has generated a great deal of interest and reaction so far, most of which is so diverse it simply re-inforces my view that the role of Chief Information Officer is so poorly defined and so poorly targeted to justify calling into question the necessity of the role. Here is a sample response (from a CFO community at linkedin.com) “Where would IT tree up to? Who would be qualified to manage, plan and lead the IT goals?” To which I replied: Who says there has to be a function called IT? |
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